BHAGALPUR: A Bhagalpur court on Thursday awarded three years' imprisonment to six police officers for assaulting an additional district judge (ADJ) inside the court premises more than 15 years ago.
The incident took place on November 18, 1997 when a group of policemen went on the rampage after ADJ D N Barai ordered inspector Joku Ram to be sent in judicial custody. A non-bailable warrant of arrest had been pending against Ram for long after he did not turn up to depose as a witness in a case.
Furious policemen ransacked the court premises and assaulted the ADJ as well as some lawyers. A judicial probe was ordered into the incident and cases were filed by the then registrar of the court as well as the ADJ.
Prosecution counsel Mukti Prasad Singh said the court, while pronouncing the sentence, granted bail to the policemen so that they could appeal against the verdict.
The convicted policemen are - police inspector K D Choudhary, SI Shashi Lata Singh, SI P K Singh, ASI Chakradhar Jha, SI K N Singh and Ranjit Pandey, the then sergeant major of Bhagalpur.
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